Is it Lucky Number 13 for Survivor?

"The idea for this actually came from the criticism that Survivor is not ethnically diverse enough. It's a social Experiment."
- Jeff Probst (shouldn't need to specify who he is)

When I first heard of this new twist to the Survivor series, my first thought was "here they go again, America's fascination with racial lines continue." So I could safely be put in the "skeptical" column, at least at first. But I have some questions for Jeff Probst. I know this blog has millions of eager readers, so if anyone of you in the multitudes run into Jeff, can you ask him these questions?

• For the non-white players, are you going to bring in, say, a black lawyer, an asian physicist, and a hispanic lawyer? If you so, are you prepared for the same backlash when "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", starring Sidney Pothier, was released: minorities better become doctors or lawyers or the like if they want to matter.
• For your ethnicities, how "pure" (excuse the use of the term) will you ethnic groups be? There's so much mixing going on in the past 30 years, who's really pure white, or pure black, or pure hispanic any more? My aunt is black, so my first cousin is mixed. I'm sure my family's not the only mixed race group, are we?
• What guidelines are you going to have in place for the game? Will use of a racial epithet get a player punted?
• Is the show going to get all preachy about "how we are all the same"? Or can the racial divisions be more of a backdrop? Are your team names going to be "The Asians", "The Whites", etc. ?
• Any reaction from the Arabs, Jews, Native Americans, East Indians, etc? "Hey man, how come we're left out?"
  
• Is this Survivor's swan song? I mean, in spite of your multi-year deal?

Anyways, the show doesn't begin until mid-September, so this should give one of you ample time to ask Jeff and respond to this blog with what he said.